In late 2016, the Prime Minister was riding high, a popular leader among the Conservative Party and beyond, with modernising credentials and a mandate to deliver Brexit. But as 2017 began, cracks began to emerge.

The rest is history. Having lost two members of her comms team, May refused to participate in TV debates, and made her ‘dementia tax’ U-turn worse by insisting that it wasn’t a U-turn. Her painful repetition of the "strong and stable" slogan, the appearance of dodging interactions with the press or members of the public, and the cringeworthy "fields of wheat" anecdote conspired to obliterate her majority.

The vicar’s daughter has tried but failed to look tough on the subject of abuse and harassment in Westminster, and her deputy Damian Green’s alleged pornography consumption has wrested control over the news cycle from May’s grasp once more.

In one respect, her year drew to a close as it began, with criticism of her dealings with Trump. In another, much had changed – YouGov’s latest figures show Corbyn and the Labour Party’s popularity approaching or even eclipsing that of May and the Tories. Two words spring to mind: ‘annus’ and ‘horribilis’.